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| - | You are provided with this team page template with which to start the iGEM season. You may choose to personalize it to fit your team but keep the same "look." Or you may choose to take your team wiki to a different level and design your own wiki. You can find some examples <a href="https://2009.igem.org/Help:Template/Examples">HERE</a>.
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| - | You <strong>MUST</strong> have the following information on your wiki:
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| - | REMEMBER, keep all of your pages within your teams namespace. <br><span style="font-weight:normal; font-style:italic;">Example: 2013hs.igem.org/Team:Lethbridge_Canada/Our_Pets</span>
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| - | |You can write a background of your team here. Give us a background of your team, the members, etc. Or tell us more about something of your choosing.
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| - | ''Tell us more about your project. Give us background. Use this as the abstract of your project. Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)''
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| - | ===Team===
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| - | On average, skin requires 2-6 weeks for full regeneration depending on the severity of the injury. For major burns, skin grafts are required to create the scaffolding for the skin cells to duplicate and create a bridge to seal the wound. According to the American Burn Association in 2002, 1.1 million burn injuries require medical attention. Additionally, in a report by Brown University, the cost to treat a serious burn without surgery is $9 000, and $30,000 on average with surgery. Research is currently being conducted on producing artificial skin to reduce needed surgeries to extract skin from a patient’s body, healing time, and cost. These methods however, such as the use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)-adult human stem cells to produce the needed scaffolding to create the graft, are invasive.
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| - | Type I collagen is the most abundant form of collagen in the body. During the formation of collagen in human cells, alpha-1 and alpha-2 helices are formed during translation to form peptide chains. Our goal is to synthesize a collagen matrix using an organism in the lab by encoding this process into its genetic makeup. Utilizing collagen to assist in the natural healing process would enable patients with wounds of varying severity to heal faster. In addition, the increased speed of healing would reduce the chance of infection as the wound will close and begin to repair in a shorter time. Furthermore, collagen would be especially useful in diabetic patients as their wounds heal slowly relative to non-diabetic individuals. Ultimately, we hope our project will create opportunities in the medical field for further testing to create a cheaper, non-invasive and more viable source for faster skin regeneration.
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| - | What was your favorite team snack?? Have a picture of your team mascot?
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